Very cool. Most of these I knew because I read, well, a lot and love etymology. A few I didn’t.
But the author hasn’t quite read enough, as it’s pretty likely that Collins got the last name “Everdeen” from Thomas Hardy’s character Bathsheba Everdene in Far From the Madding Crowd.
By the way in that novel, Everdene’s closest friend is named “Gabriel.” Coincidence? Yeah, no.
People should pay me to research this shit.
I don’t even have to research.
I’m no fan of the “glowing pregnant woman” trope, but she looks great.
Even enterprise-class non-Windows OSes have regressed greatly in interface design.
Over the past week, I’ve been using both CentOS 6 and CentoOS 7 which are rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Cent 6 is very clean and straightforward. Programs are labeled sensibly. It’s simple and like a tool should be.
Cent 7 is like someone grafted the worst tablet in the world onto the interface. Icons are missing (on purpose). Much is confusingly labeled or not labeled at all. You have to swipe up to log in, which took me about 10 minutes to figure out.
Why you’d ever, ever want a tablet interface on a server I haven’t a clue. Anyone who did this or had anything to do with it should be fired immediately, and if they worked for free, they should be hired and then fired.
Most of the time I will be in the command line anyway. But a few things can’t easily be done there, even per Red Hat, so it’s inevitable this monstrosity of an interface will annoy me from time to time.
Why does anyone think this is a good idea? Phone interfaces belong nowhere near servers, not at any point, no matter what.
Words matter, but other things matter more. Economic justice and structural change I would 
argue matter more, and only actions that lead to those will transform the world. Endless battles on Twitter and Tumblr about who said what bad word when, and who culturally appropriated what (usually inaccurate) and how hard are actually harmful, even to the people who it is supposed these arguments help.
It’s precisely because mainstream liberalism has so thoroughly surrendered on issues of economic justice and class war that so many young people think of politics as a game of word policing and loud noises on Twitter.
The Left is soulless – in the sense that it has no animus, just tribal markers that change weekly to enable policing and to promote exclusivity, to thin the ranks so that there can be an in group and the out group du jour.
I don’t think the Right and the RNC types are actually intelligent or conniving enough to do this, but if I wanted to destroy the Left, my attempt would look much like the focus on identity politics, word policing and outcast-creating that the modern Left has become.
That shit is damn effective for neutralizing a movement.
Dell’s latest 4K displays bring IPS goodness down to $600.
One of these will be the second monitor to my 5K iMac. A bit further away == don’t need 5K.
We are in the golden age of great displays.
Been waiting for decent fonts and easy readability on the desktop my whole life.
Come a long way from the 320×240 I first used.